Teaching

Mathematics is an incredibly rewarding subject to teach for numerous reasons. For me, the most prominent is that a mathematics instructor may encourage (or insist!) that their students ask “Why?”

Even at its most elementary levels, mathematics never demands blind faith from its students. Whether students are dividing fractions, using the quadratic formula, using integrating factors to solve first order linear differential equations, or (better yet!) formulating and proving their own conjectures, mathematics invites students to not only know a fact, but to know why a fact is a fact! In the classroom, I seek to encourage and engage students on three fronts: on knowing the mathematics of the course, on applying the mathematics of the course, and on internalizing a verification of the validity of the mathematics of the course.

If you want to know more about my teaching philosophy and approach to mathematical instruction, please see my teaching statement here.

As Instructor of Record

As Teaching Assistant